MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Pierre L. Goossens, Patricia Sylvestre, and Michèle Mock

Of spore opsonization and passive protection against anthrax
Microbiology 2007 153: 301-302. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jargalsaikhan Enkhtuya, So-ichi Makino, Ikuo Uchida, and Keiko Kawamoto

In reply
Microbiology 2007 153: 302-304. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Douglas E. Rawlings and D. Barrie Johnson

The microbiology of biomining: development and optimization of mineral-oxidizing microbial consortia
Microbiology 2007 153: 315-324. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEWS:

Sandy Y. M. Ng, Bonnie Chaban, David J. VanDyke, and Ken F. Jarrell

Archaeal signal peptidases
Microbiology 2007 153: 305-314. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Nadja Heidrich and Sabine Brantl

Antisense RNA-mediated transcriptional attenuation in plasmid pIP501: the simultaneous interaction between two complementary loop pairs is required for efficient inhibition by the antisense RNA
Microbiology 2007 153: 420-427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James E. Gunton, Matthew W. Gilmour, Kelly P. Baptista, Trevor D. Lawley, and Diane E. Taylor

Interaction between the co-inherited TraG coupling protein and the TraJ membrane-associated protein of the H-plasmid conjugative DNA transfer system resembles chromosomal DNA translocases
Microbiology 2007 153: 428-441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Bizzini, Paul Majcherczyk, Siham Beggah-Möller, Blazenka Soldo, José M. Entenza, Muriel Gaillard, Philippe Moreillon, and Vladimir Lazarevic

Effects of -phosphoglucomutase deficiency on cell wall properties and fitness in Streptococcus gordonii
Microbiology 2007 153: 490-498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tina Hölscher, Dinusha Weinert-Sepalage, and Helmut Görisch

Identification of membrane-bound quinoprotein inositol dehydrogenase in Gluconobacter oxydans ATCC 621H
Microbiology 2007 153: 499-506. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kiranmai Bhatt, Sudagar S. Gurcha, Apoorva Bhatt, Gurdyal S. Besra, and William R. Jacobs, Jr

Two polyketide-synthase-associated acyltransferases are required for sulfolipid biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 513-520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nobuhiko Okada, Yorie Oi, Mayuko Takeda-Shitaka, Kazuhiko Kanou, Hideaki Umeyama, Takeshi Haneda, Tsuyoshi Miki, Sachiko Hosoya, and Hirofumi Danbara

Identification of amino acid residues of Salmonella SlyA that are critical for transcriptional regulation
Microbiology 2007 153: 548-560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia S. López, Alejandro F. Alice, Ranjan Chakraborty, and Jorge H. Crosa

Identification of amino acid residues required for ferric-anguibactin transport in the outer-membrane receptor FatA of Vibrio anguillarum
Microbiology 2007 153: 570-584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Murata, Yoshinao Azuma, Koshiro Miura, Mohd. Akhlakur Rahman, Minenosuke Matsutani, Masahiro Aoyama, Harumi Suzuki, Kazuro Sugi, and Mutsunori Shirai

Chlamydial SET domain protein functions as a histone methyltransferase
Microbiology 2007 153: 585-592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Liang Ran, Fang Huang, Martin Ekman, Johan Klint, and Birgitta Bergman

Proteomic analyses of the photoauto- and diazotrophically grown cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 73102
Microbiology 2007 153: 608-618. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Leen De Gelder, José M. Ponciano, Paul Joyce, and Eva M. Top

Stability of a promiscuous plasmid in different hosts: no guarantee for a long-term relationship
Microbiology 2007 153: 452-463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Asha S. Nayar, Hiroshi Yamaura, Ramya Rajagopalan, Douglas D. Risser, and Sean M. Callahan

FraG is necessary for filament integrity and heterocyst maturation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120
Microbiology 2007 153: 601-607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

R. Vílchez, C. Pozo, M. A. Gómez, B. Rodelas, and J. González-López

Dominance of sphingomonads in a copper-exposed biofilm community for groundwater treatment
Microbiology 2007 153: 325-337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akio Tani, Jittima Charoenpanich, Terumi Mori, Mayuko Takeichi, Kazuhide Kimbara, and Fusako Kawai

Structure and conservation of a polyethylene glycol-degradative operon in sphingomonads
Microbiology 2007 153: 338-346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Gerald F. Audette, Jan Manchak, Perrin Beatty, William A. Klimke, and Laura S. Frost

Entry exclusion in F-like plasmids requires intact TraG in the donor that recognizes its cognate TraS in the recipient
Microbiology 2007 153: 442-451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham P. Stafford and Colin Hughes

Salmonella typhimurium flhE, a conserved flagellar regulon gene required for swarming
Microbiology 2007 153: 541-547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Hiroki Ando, Hiroyuki Abe, Nakaba Sugimoto, and Toru Tobe

Maturation of functional type III secretion machinery by activation of anaerobic respiration in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2007 153: 464-473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra K. Marr, Joerg Overhage, Manjeet Bains, and Robert E. W. Hancock

The Lon protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is induced by aminoglycosides and is involved in biofilm formation and motility
Microbiology 2007 153: 474-482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Lucía Fernández, Miguel Prieto, and José A. Guijarro

The iron- and temperature-regulated haemolysin YhlA is a virulence factor of Yersinia ruckeri
Microbiology 2007 153: 483-489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linoj P. Samuel, Chang-Hwa Song, Jun Wei, Esteban A. Roberts, John L. Dahl, Clifton E. Barry, III, Eun-Kyeong Jo, and Richard L. Friedman

Expression, production and release of the Eis protein by Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection of macrophages and its effect on cytokine secretion
Microbiology 2007 153: 529-540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine M. Byrne, Marguerite Clyne, and Billy Bourke

Campylobacter jejuni adhere to and invade chicken intestinal epithelial cells in vitro
Microbiology 2007 153: 561-569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Sören Warneke, Matthias Arenskötter, Klaus B. Tenberge, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Bacterial degradation of poly(trans-1,4-isoprene) (gutta percha)
Microbiology 2007 153: 347-356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Juan Nogales, Raffaella Macchi, Federico Franchi, Dagania Barzaghi, Cristina Fernández, José L. García, Giovanni Bertoni, and Eduardo Díaz

Characterization of the last step of the aerobic phenylacetic acid degradation pathway
Microbiology 2007 153: 357-365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicole Tessmer, Simone König, Ursula Malkus, Rudolf Reichelt, Markus Pötter, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Heat-shock protein HspA mimics the function of phasins sensu stricto in recombinant strains of Escherichia coli accumulating polythioesters or polyhydroxyalkanoates
Microbiology 2007 153: 366-374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Svetlana N. Yurgel, Jhoanna Berrocal, Cynthia Wilson, and Michael L. Kahn

Pleiotropic effects of mutations that alter the Sinorhizobium meliloti cytochrome c respiratory system
Microbiology 2007 153: 399-410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erzsébet Fekete, Levente Karaffa, Christian P. Kubicek, Attila Szentirmai, and Bernhard Seiboth

Induction of extracellular -galactosidase (Bga1) formation by D-galactose in Hypocrea jecorina is mediated by galactitol
Microbiology 2007 153: 507-512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krzysztof W. Siemieniewicz and Hildgund Schrempf

Concerted responses between the chitin-binding protein secreting Streptomyces olivaceoviridis and Aspergillus proliferans
Microbiology 2007 153: 593-600. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Jiujun Cheng, Christopher D. Sibley, Rahat Zaheer, and Turlough M. Finan

A Sinorhizobium meliloti minE mutant has an altered morphology and exhibits defects in legume symbiosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 375-387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chunxia Wang, Marsha Saldanha, Xiaoyan Sheng, Kristopher J. Shelswell, Keith T. Walsh, Bruno W. S. Sobral, and Trevor C. Charles

Roles of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and glycogen in symbiosis of Sinorhizobium meliloti with Medicago sp.
Microbiology 2007 153: 388-398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georgina E. Meakin, Emilio Bueno, Brian Jepson, Eulogio J. Bedmar, David J. Richardson, and María J. Delgado

The contribution of bacteroidal nitrate and nitrite reduction to the formation of nitrosylleghaemoglobin complexes in soybean root nodules
Microbiology 2007 153: 411-419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRIGENDUM:

Yuhui Sun, Hui Hong, Markiyan Samborskyy, Tatiana Mironenko, Peter F. Leadlay, and Stephen F. Haydock

Organization of the biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces sp. DSM 4137 for the novel neuroprotectant polyketide meridamycin
Microbiology 2007 153: 631. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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